Artist Description
Elliott Sharp is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.
A central figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New
York City for over 30 years, Elliott Sharp has released over eighty-five
recordings ranging from orchestral music to blues, jazz, noise, no wave
rock, and techno music. He leads the projects Carbon and Orchestra
Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and has pioneered ways of applying
fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical
composition and interaction.
His collaborators have included Radio-Sinfonie Frankfurt; pop singer
Debbie Harry; Ensemble Modern; Qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan;
Kronos String Quartet; Ensemble Resonanz; cello innovator Frances Marie
Uitti; blues legends Hubert Sumlin and Pops Staples; pipa virtuoso
Min-Xiao Feng; jazz greats Jack deJohnette, Oliver Lake, and Sonny
Sharrock; multimedia artists Christian Marclay and Pierre Huyghe; and
Bachir Attar, leader of the Master Musicians Of Jajouka.
Sharp is the subject of a new documentary "Doing The Don't" by filmmaker Bert Shapiro.
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